Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 21172e848736a9be…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.0 KB Created: 2021-10-11 16:29:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: dc8801f9314ba835e84b8466284f4e00 SHA-1: 7695d968b29c169e94349b007297e2305e0e0930 SHA-256: 21172e848736a9bea6008fb817ab35e52ff36ae1ee995d12c9d07782b81ba9f4
146 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic strongly suggests a callback phishing or tech-support scam, where the document prompts the user to call a phone number. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs point towards a phishing attempt, likely using embedded JavaScript for obfuscation or redirection, hence T1059.007 is included. The primary attack vector is likely Spearphishing Attachment (T1566.001).

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://maftplayer.net/calisma2/files/uploads/1736838104.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bkht.vn/userfiles/file/porubegijagasixafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smenergy.kr/uploaded/file/11187047056158a5272d297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mictrogiang.com/userfiles/files/disow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fonnepal.org/userfiles/file/xulanuboxozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fiscconsulting.com/userfiles/file/18834903815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ivanda-commerce.hr/userfiles/file/kadulefewidafesagatejij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahkjt.com/upfile/file/rozunepoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ensegun2.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gibuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaies.net/upfiles/file/fowolale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leeandrewdavison.com/download/69558845679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://volkshilfe-ktn.at/images/content/files/67339652834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://friulanamarmi.it/images/file/gaputikafoxuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://calendarsunrooms.com/userfiles/files/kisadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://augustaelectricalwork.com/editorData/file/24775963296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lowdoc-loans.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161538b613632a---vovaduzenudenusuwiwib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://annekienlen.fr/imagesfile/5616518506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sma-dfgg.org/site/admin/file/39478617527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carcable-bg.com/uploads/pictures/files/45685922192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gopherandsquirrelcontrol.com/admin/images/file/padufuwujisog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouldersudbury.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130dc0ede045---43413308273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://toolsatool.com/userfiles/files/19731438742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cpiequipos.com/assets/images/user_files/files/jidowalatawupibenat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atreve.eu/ubezpiecz/obrazy/file/kilokenilafiwep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Gsjc/~3/tgwjJlsMqHc/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+a+policy+toolPDF link annotation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c1f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC1F7 10240 bytes
SHA-256: 60089876fb12d4767c990fef264285feb514b344a9957601678b5bd7953798c2
font_01_sfnt_off0000d92c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD92C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f13e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF13E 17276 bytes
SHA-256: 48155d674f84871c833fa88efdf6300778de77eedce8c3e9bad2252196016d6a